Could comcast be blocking port 6667 outbound?

[Bill Horne]

Gordon Marx wrote:

>On 01/09/05, Mike Gorse <mgorse at mgorse.dhs.org> wrote:
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>>Well, I spoke too soon; it quickly stopped working.  
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>They're reading your email! ::tinfoil hat on::
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>Gordon
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I don't think they are; from what I've seen, Comcast simply delists 
anyone who complains, for an as-yet undetermined length of time, and 
then the block goes back into place. I suspect they've got a poorly 
designed security system in place, which has defective spam-detection 
or/and virus-detection algorithms. Alternatively, they may just have a 
script set up that removes any exceptions after a short interval.

I complained about port 25 blocking, and after I received assurances 
that the port was not blocked, it worked for a few days and then went 
dead again. Although dyndns.org sells smtp port-forwarding for $40/year, 
I'm just going to switch to Speakeasy and obviate the problem.

Once I get Speakeasy going, anyone with a Comcast blocking problem can 
ask me for forwarding; I'll have to work out a throttling mechanism, but 
there's no reason to put up with this kind of shadow boxing from Comcast.

Bill

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